Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Trends Pharmacol Sci. 2022 Jan;43(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tips.2021.11.003. Epub 2021 Nov 13.
Cancer therapy with the T cell growth factor interleukin (IL)-2 is limited by low response rates and toxicity. Multiple protein engineering strategies have attempted to improve IL-2 therapy, typically through enhanced IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) binding. Intriguingly, Mo et al. show that an IL-2R partial agonist may dramatically improve IL-2 responses by altering T cell differentiation.
癌症治疗中使用 T 细胞生长因子白细胞介素(IL)-2会受到低反应率和毒性的限制。多种蛋白质工程策略试图改善 IL-2 治疗,通常是通过增强 IL-2 受体(IL-2R)结合。有趣的是,Mo 等人表明,通过改变 T 细胞分化,IL-2R 部分激动剂可能会显著改善 IL-2 的反应。